Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 110
But the rishi would not abate a jot of his punishment and he wears a black smudge to this day.
Who acts: rishi · What happens: not abate, wear, jot, punish · To what, where: jot, black smudge, punishment
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rishi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 abate | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rishi | det |
| 3 | rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abate | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 abate | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 abate | advmod |
| 6 | abate | abate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jot | det |
| 8 | jot | jot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abate | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 punishment | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 11 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jot | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wears | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wears | nsubj |
| 14 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 abate | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smudge | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 smudge | amod |
| 17 | smudge | smudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wears | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wears | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 abate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not abate | would | the rishi | a jot of rishi's punishment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | rishi | a black smudge | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smudge=Source | |||
| 3 | jot | rishi's punishment | nom jot «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | punish | rishi | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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